Getting Too Bulky

How Big Is Big Enough?

Your own definition of “big enough”

We started off with who got laid in The Terminator. Actor Michael Biehn — the guy tasked with saving Sarah Connor — has his own definition of big enough that is a lot different from Schwarzenegger’s. Michael and I sat down for coffee a while ago to discuss his fitness regimen and he said he never wanted to bulk up. “I always wanted to be lean,” Biehn told me. “The guy I wanted to look like was Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver — lean and mean and with sinewy muscle” (read my entire interview with Michael Biehn for the L.A. Times).

In the end, it’s not about what other people may or may not consider sexy, but about what we want. I could get bigger on creatine, but I don’t really want to. Besides, Alan Aragon warned me it might make my face puffy, and I don’t want that hint of a chin dimple filling in. In fact, I don’t take any supplements at all, and my post-workout recovery drink is a glass of milk.

As for the opposite sex (or same sex, if you like), even if some people don’t dig your look, I bet you can find someone cool who does. Or perhaps your significant other simply likes that you like your look. After the initial attraction, they’ll be more impressed with your willingness to engage in bare-ass lifesaving time travel anyway. Take that one from a guy who has been with the same woman — one who is light years out of his league — for 24 years.